Cultures, Communities, and Conflict : Histories of Canadian Universities and War

With its diverse research methodologies and its strong thematic structure, __Cultures, Communities, and Conflict__ provides an energetic basis for new understandings of universities as historical partners in Canadian community and state formation. Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Introduction: History of Canadian Universities and War 9 1 Educating for War and Peace at Acadia University: The Great War Generation 34 2 An Acute Yet Brief Bout of ‘returned-soldier-itis’: The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Forestry after the First World War 59 3 ‘We must not neglect our duty’: Enlisting Women Undergraduates for the Red Cross during the Great War 79 4 Dancing into Education: The First World War and the Roots of Change in Women’s Higher Education 103 5 Manly Heroes: The University of Saskatchewan and the First World War 129 6 ‘A stern matron who stands beside the chair in every council of war or industry’: The First World War and the Development of Scientific Research at Canadian Universities 154 7 Canadian University Scientists and Military Technology: The Challenge of Total War, 1939–1945 183 8 Academic Freedom in Wartime: The Canadian Experience in the Twentieth Century 210 9 Refugee Professors and the University of Toronto during the Second World War 235 10 Universities, Students, and the Conduct of War in Canada and Britain: A Comparative Perspective 261 11 War and the Concept of Generation: The International Teach-ins at the University of Toronto, 1965–1968 280 Contributors 303 Index 307

Cultures, Communities, and Conflict offers provocative, cutting-edge perspectives on the history of English-Canadian universities and war in the twentieth century. The contributors explore how universities contributed not only to Canadian war efforts, but to forging multiple understandings of intellectualism, academia, and community within an evolving Canadian nation.

Contributing to the social, intellectual, and academic history of universities, the collection provides rich approaches to integral issues at the intersection of higher education and wartime, including academic freedom, gender, peace and activism on campus, and the challenges of ethnic diversity. The contributors place the historical university in several contexts, not the least of which is the university’s substantial power to construct and transform intellectual discourse and promote efforts for change both on- and off-campus.

With its diverse research methodologies and its strong thematic structure, Cultures, Communities, and Conflict provides an energetic basis for new understandings of universities as historical partners in Canadian community and state formation.

"Cultures, Communities, and Conflict offers provocative, cutting-edge perspectives on the history of English-Canadian universities and war in the twentieth century. The contributors explore how universities contributed not only to Canadian war efforts, but to forging multiple understandings of intellectualism, academia, and community within an evolving Canadian nation. Contributing to the social, intellectual, and academic history of universities, the collection provides rich approaches to integral issues at the intersection of higher education and wartime, including academic freedom, gender, peace and activism on campus, and the challenges of ethnic diversity. The contributors place the historical university in several contexts, not the least of which is the university's substantial power to construct and transform intellectual discourse and promote efforts for change both on- and off-campus. With its diverse research methodologies and its strong thematic structure, Cultures, Communities, and Conflict provides an energetic basis for new understandings of universities as historical partners in Canadian community and state formation."--Pub. desc.